WP&Y RR

This railroad was built as an alternative to the Chilkoot Pass overland route that the gold stampeders used in the early days of the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890's. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police required that each stampeder have supplies for one year (2,000 pounds) or else the stampeder was turned back. They averaged 40 trips up the 30 degree slope to Chilkat Pass to get their ton of supplies staged for the RCMP to OK their passage into Canada.